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This AI Tool Doesn't Help With Homework. It Does It for You Einstein is a new AI tool that can watch lecture videos, read essays, write papers, complete quizzes and basically take your class for you.

If there were ever a reason to never use Canvas again, this would be it: www.cnet.com/tech/service...

A friend pointed out that the ones with the huge HVAC systems have to be data centers because they wouldn’t build that sophisticated temperature control for humans. And he’s absolutely right 🫠🫠🫠

Don’t worry. They already thought of this for sure.

Let’s play a game. Which of these are data centers, and which are ICE detention centers?

Drop an album that was important to you when you were 19

Moltbook Looked Like An Emerging AI Society, But Humans Were Pulling The Strings Moltbook is a platform described as a social network built exclusively for AI agents, but now it seems that humans were pulling the strings.

“the most widely shared Moltbook content, the posts that drove headlines and speculation, often came from these theatrical accounts rather than verifiable autonomous agents. Viral consciousness debates were overwhelmingly human driven.” www.forbes.com/sites/ronsch...

Melania is apparently The Minecraft Movie for brainwashed psychopaths.

YouTube video by TIME On This Day... 1776 | January 10: Common Sense

ICYMI A profoundly out of touch Darren Aronofsky has a new AI production company and just released an AI-animated "series" about the Revolutionary War. No one actually wants this. The intended audience is venture capital: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZDn...

Fuck this monstrous complicity into the sun.

This is mentioned briefly in the article, but the entire hiring and promotion process for academics has been ensnared by this shit. Publishing 7 articles and a book in five years in order to get tenure is insane. Research contribution should be measured by quality not quantity.

Once again tapping the sign: datasociety.net/points/the-n...

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that the price of Bitcoin started rising to its highest point since early December a couple of hours directly before the U.S. invasion of Venezuela

Greenland’s prime minister has been on top of this, but U.S. media has been less nuanced on the distinction, often taking Trump’s words as fact, which is always a mistake. The admin has designs on Greenland but how real are they? This is still in question: bsky.app/profile/chad...

It’s important in this mess to distinguish between rhetoric/imaginary and on-the-ground reality. For these folks Greenland isn’t a real place with people and things, but more of an empty fetish object on which to project future imaginaries. I talk a bit about it here: datasociety.net/points/the-n...

I'm researching the relationship between humanoid robots and data centers, and I'm looking for resources that detail the cloud infrastructures of robots. Generally interested in relationships between these emerging robotics companies and AWS/Azure, etc. Any pointers would be much appreciated!

I completely forgot that movie existed but now suddenly I remember everything about it.

Student projects were inspired by Brakhage, Deren, Dorsky, Parajanov, and many others. Dorsky was an all-around favorite last semester. As was Brakhage's Passage Through: A Ritual. Students loved the absence of image. Very proud of them for diving head first into some very difficult material.

I haven't been posting a lot lately, but I wanted to share the syllabus for my Experimental Cinema course I ran last semester. A transcendent experience. Their final films were incredible. Here's the syllabus and some project screenshots: static1.squarespace.com/static/5d5ef...

It’s the most criminally underrated horror film of the 80s

Any tech that doesn’t help directly address ongoing genocides, income inequality, the climate crisis, and the rise of global fascism is nonsense and should not be funded.

As an aside, if any editor out there wants to pay me to write a piece on why measuring the immense social and environmental impacts of AI is getting us nowhere, and how we can reframe the discourse, I have a number of things brewing. Plus I’m poor and need some extra cash plzzzz.

Firsting in Research Firsting in research, then, is not about being first to a place, first to know something, first to discover something. It is a proclamation of power to make property in someone’s home, to put…

In regards to modes of extraction in grad school and western research practices, I’m gonna leave this here. @maxliboiron.bsky.social always has lessons to teach us about methods, research ethics, and how to produce (or at least endeavor to produce) just knowledge: discardstudies.com/2021/01/18/f...

As an aside, I’ve now noticed EBSCO providing AI summaries of its articles, which undermines the entire business model of academic publishing. This follows the death of close reading and how grad students are taught to read extractively. Why read any article ever again? Now we don’t have to!

In terms of art, there are SO many great artists thinking critically about AI and its place in society. @eryk.bsky.social is one I consistently recommend as an artist who sees value in expression through the kinds of ecosystems of noise through which AI models articulate. Fascinating work.

So talking about AI as a uniform technology that is doing stuff is asinine and baby discourse. Specific AI models designed for specific purposes. Flooding the FAA with AI doesn’t mean anything. What contracts/models/services/limitations/etc. ATM AI is just smoke connoting false political promises.

AI is not an object, a thing, or an intelligence. It is not even singular. It is a complex web of relations between hardware, software, human operators, energy production, resource extraction, political negotiations, Land (with a capital L), and the local ecosystem within which it’s deployed.

I could see Vibrant Matter used in an Anthropic whitepaper. Maybe it already has.